About the Agenda for Humanity

The Agenda for Humanity is a five-point plan that outlines the changes that are needed to alleviate suffering, reduce risk and lessen vulnerability on a global scale. In the Agenda, humanity—people’s safety, dignity and the right to thrive— is placed at the heart of global decision-making. To achieve this, global leaders and all humanitarian actors are called upon to act on five core responsibilities. Click on the icons below to learn more about each core responsibility.

 

Agenda for Humanity Transformations

The Agenda for Humanity advocates for a number of strategic and normative transformations under each core responsibility that are necessary in order to make it a reality. The individual and joint commitments made at the Summit will support the implementation of these strategic transformations.

#1 Prevent and end conflicts Prevent and end conflicts
Leadership to prevent and end conflict

Demonstrate timely, coherent and decisive political leadership
Act early

Act early
Stay and invest

Remain engaged and invest in stability
Be inclusive in decision making

Develop solutions with and for people
#2 Respect rules of war Respect rules of war
Protect civilians and civilian property

Respect and protect civilians and civilian objects in the conduct of hostilities
Ensure delivery of humanitarian and medical assistance

Ensure full access to and protection of the humanitarian and medical missions
Speak out on violations

Speak out on violations
Improve compliance and accountability

Take concrete steps to improve compliance and accountability
Stand up for the rules of war

Uphold the rules: a global campaign to affirm the norms that safeguard humanity
#3 Leave no one behind Leave no one behind
Address displacement

Reduce and address displacement
Address migration

Address the vulnerabilities of migrants and provide more regular and lawful opportunities for migration
End statelessness

End statelessness in the next decade
Empower and protect women and girls

Empower and protect women and girls
Ensure education for all in crisis

Eliminate gaps in education for children, adolescents and young people
Empower young people

Enable adolescents and young people to be agents of positive transformation
Include the most vulnerable

Address other groups or minorities in crisis settings
#4 Work differently to end need Work differently to end need
Reinforce local systems

Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems
Anticipate crises

Anticipate, do not wait, for crises
Transcend humanitarian-development divides

Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides
#5 Invest in humanity Invest in humanity
Invest in local capacities

Invest in local capacities
Invest according to risk

Invest according to risk
Invest in stability

Invest in stability
Shift from funding to financing

Finance outcomes, not fragmentation: shift from funding to financing
Diversify resources and increase efficiency

Diversify the resource base and increase cost-efficiency

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 One Humanity, Shared Responsibility

The five Core Responsibilities and the Agenda for Humanity are part of the Report: One Humanity, Shared Responsibility which guided the overarching framework of the World Humanitarian Summit. At the Summit 180 Member States of the United Nations, over 700 local and international NGOs, the private sector and other stakeholders demonstrated overwhelming support for the Agenda and announced thousands of commitments to turn it into reality. More than a dozen initiatives, partnerships, platforms and alliances were either newly developed or strengthened through the World Humanitarian Summit process and will help implement the Agenda for Humanity.